Ancient Chinese curse: may you live in interesting times. This web site is my attempt to document, from my perspective, these "interesting times".

Saturday, November 13, 2004

Alberto Gonzalez is an honorable man

I had been concerned over the last couple of days that the Democrats were
once again going to roll over in the face of the Alberto Gonzalez nomination for
Attorney General. Despite the fact that the Gonzalez has so many marks against
him there were reports that several prominent Democrats were talking about him
as an acceptable alternative to the "lighting rod" that was John Ashcroft.

Perhaps my concerns were unfounded.
Blog for America
has a couple of quotes from Senators Kennedy and Leahy that suggest that they
will be making an issue out of Abu Ghraib and Mr. Gonzalez's memo calling
the Geneva Convention "quaint". But their comments are couched in the usual
polite language of the Senate.

I don't know exactly what is going on, but it may be that the Democrats are
taking an Antony's-eulogy-to-Caeser approach to the Gonzalez nomination. They
praise him at first, in order to lull the Republicans into thinking that
the Democrats are going to roll over once again. But they will hammer him anyway
once then get him under oath.